On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 09:41:18AM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> I'm not a friend of these "overlays"; it all only really makes sense to me
> once we actually allocate the descriptors dynamically. Maybe some of the
> existing/ongoing conversions were different (that's why I was asking for the
>
On 27.06.23 22:13, Hugh Dickins wrote:
On Tue, 27 Jun 2023, David Hildenbrand wrote:
On 27.06.23 06:44, Hugh Dickins wrote:
On Mon, 26 Jun 2023, Vishal Moola (Oracle) wrote:
The MM subsystem is trying to shrink struct page. This patchset
introduces a memory descriptor for page table tracking
On Tue, 27 Jun 2023, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 09:44:08PM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > On Mon, 26 Jun 2023, Vishal Moola (Oracle) wrote:
> >
> > > The MM subsystem is trying to shrink struct page. This patchset
> > > introduces a memory descriptor for page table tracking -
On Tue, 27 Jun 2023, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 27.06.23 06:44, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > On Mon, 26 Jun 2023, Vishal Moola (Oracle) wrote:
> >
> >> The MM subsystem is trying to shrink struct page. This patchset
> >> introduces a memory descriptor for page table tracking - struct ptdesc.
> > ...
On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 09:44:08PM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jun 2023, Vishal Moola (Oracle) wrote:
>
> > The MM subsystem is trying to shrink struct page. This patchset
> > introduces a memory descriptor for page table tracking - struct ptdesc.
> ...
> > 39 files changed, 686 inser
On 27.06.23 06:44, Hugh Dickins wrote:
On Mon, 26 Jun 2023, Vishal Moola (Oracle) wrote:
The MM subsystem is trying to shrink struct page. This patchset
introduces a memory descriptor for page table tracking - struct ptdesc.
...
39 files changed, 686 insertions(+), 455 deletions(-)
I don'
On Mon, 26 Jun 2023, Vishal Moola (Oracle) wrote:
> The MM subsystem is trying to shrink struct page. This patchset
> introduces a memory descriptor for page table tracking - struct ptdesc.
...
> 39 files changed, 686 insertions(+), 455 deletions(-)
I don't see the point of this patchset: to me
The MM subsystem is trying to shrink struct page. This patchset
introduces a memory descriptor for page table tracking - struct ptdesc.
This patchset introduces ptdesc, splits ptdesc from struct page, and
converts many callers of page table constructor/destructors to use ptdescs.
Ptdesc is a foun
